Top 10 Reasons Why You Need to Learn to Draw

 

As kids, we are encouraged to draw and paint to enhance our creativity.

But as we grow older, drawing takes a backseat and is often seen as a time-wasting hobby by cynical adults. There will be those who actually tell you to instead spend time trying to enhance money-making skills.

But here is why you should draw anyway: 

1) It is fun. You can draw anything, anytime. All you need is your imagination. You can create a world of your own through drawing, one that makes you smile.

2) It can be a cheap hobby. While artists do you different pencils and papers to create artwork, you can doodle in a notebook with a pen or crayon. The whole idea is to create a drawing born out of your creativity.

3) It can be satisfying. If you ever have time, you can pick a subject online and practice drawing it. Or watch a video that teaches you to draw. Being able to draw something you thought you wouldn't be able to can be deeply satisfying.

Plus, you just learned to do something new today, and that accomplishment can make you feel satisfied about completing a task.

4) It can be therapeutic. Drawing can help you get in touch with your inner feelings. Feeling frustrated or sad? A simple drawing can help you vent those feelings and make you feel so much better. It's a great way to get your anger out, too, by drawing funny sketches of the person you are feeling irritated with. Just make sure the drawing doesn't get into their hands.

5) Drawing can help you with focus. Especially when you are learning how to draw a new subject, you have to pay attention to all the tiny details that can enhance your picture.

6) It improves memory. If someone tells you to draw a cat, you have to try to remember a cat you recently saw and how it looked. Drawing from memory is a good way to improve memory.

7) Drawing makes you happy. Being able to draw something and filling it with colors can greatly improve your mood. A pretty picture born out of your own creativity can feel like a big accomplishment that can make you happy.

8) Drawing can help you think out of the box. Made a mistake in your drawing, but don't want to throw it out? Chances are you will try to find some ways to fix the drawing with new, creative ways. Eventually, the skills learned here will train you to face any other problems with the attitude that most things are fixable if you apply different techniques.

9) Drawing improves motor skills. The way you hold your pen or pencil, the strokes you apply, all of it helps make your hand movements efficient. 

Eventually, it is a good exercise for your hands.

10) Drawing is a convenient hobby. You can do it anywhere, and if you are pressed for time, you can make a small doodle in the corner of a book.

Just being able to draw something helps you de-stress, and makes the time pass faster when you are waiting for something.

Drawing is a skill we have all learned at some point but to do it effectively is something that requires training.

Being able to create beautiful pictures is truly an accomplishment and a skill worth having and giving time to.